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    Re: Agfa Ansco View Camera Question/help

    Zoom2zoom, a great camera !!!!
    Looks fantasic for it's age, allmost new.....

    I hope you don't mind me downloading the photographs for future references.
    I would publish them, promisse !

    Make great pic's with this beauty.

    Peter

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    Re: Agfa Ansco View Camera Question/help

    Hi zoom2zoom,
    I have an Ansco 8x10 which looks exactly like yours -- the finish on the wood, lacquered brass hardware, front tilt, etc. Mine is just labeled Ansco, which I've learned means it was made late during the war years or just after. The dealer I bought it from said the previous owner has completely refinished the camera (I imagine he stripped off the grey paint finish that was standard on the later models). Then he never used it! Hard to understand, but good for me. The camera looks brand new.
    I use mine on a hefty old Paul Ries tripod. It's a wonderfully rigid camera (should be, considering the weight) with firm adjustments.

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    Re: Agfa Ansco View Camera Question/help

    If it's the same lacquered wood finish & brass hardware then yours is probably pre Agfa taking over Ansco. The Bingham factory ceased camera production during WWII and it appears the view cameras were made elsewhere, the hardware changed it was all nickel or chrome plated and they were all painted battleship Grey, So the hardware should be a good indication of when yours was made.

    Without photo's it's hard to tell.

    Ian

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    Re: Agfa Ansco View Camera Question/help

    If it has front tilt then it's post 1942. No? Tilt. Only Ansco on the label.

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    Re: Agfa Ansco View Camera Question/help

    Quote Originally Posted by Nick_3536 View Post
    If it has front tilt then it's post 1942. No? Tilt. Only Ansco on the label.
    No front tilt was available pre-42 on some models, Standard, Universal and Commercial View. It doesn't help that Agfa Ansco used the wrong photo's in their catalogues for some of the cameras.

    My Commercial View was bought sometime around 1937/38 and has front tilt, the original owner bought it with a 12" Dagor an it's serial number indicates it was manufactured some time between 1934/7.

    Early versions of the same models of the cameras were just marked as Ansco.

    Ian

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    Re: Agfa Ansco View Camera Question/help

    But pre-42 would be labeled Afga-Ansco. Not just Ansco.

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    Re: Agfa Ansco View Camera Question/help

    Quote Originally Posted by EuGene Smith View Post
    Golly, not only do I love that camera and tripod, but would give my eye teeth for that good old dial set Compur shutter. I have several of them and they are great!
    Unless my old eyes are fooling me, that lens is in a Compound shutter. Note the pneumatic cylinder at the top.

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    Re: Agfa Ansco View Camera Question/help

    Quote Originally Posted by Nick_3536 View Post
    But pre-42 would be labeled Afga-Ansco. Not just Ansco.
    The Ansco name was on the cameras until they were re-branded Agfa, I'm not sure when that happened but some time after 1928. Initially Agfa only had a 40% stake in the merged US Agfa Ansco company, and these camera's were an Ansco product..

    But without photographs it's difficult to say whether the camera is post 1942, or an early version of the previous 10x8 models,

    Ian

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    Re: Agfa Ansco View Camera Question/help

    Yes but the tilt didn't come in until early 1930s IIRC. So if the camera has front tilt and only carries the Ansco name it has to be after the US government took it over.

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    Re: Agfa Ansco View Camera Question/help

    There's front tilt on some 1928 Ansco's

    Ian

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